Eight bodies were recovered and many others feared dead on Tuesday following a downpour in Rafi-Gora village and Gangare Saji in Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger state.
Confirming the number of casualties from the downpour, Director-General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Ibrahim Inga, told newsmen in Minna that seven teenage girls were washed away by the flood in Rafin-Gora market while three children also died in Anguwan Gangare Saji.
Narrating the incident, Inga said the girls were inside a shop in Rafi-Gora market while the three children in Gangare Saji fell inside a pit toilet while attempting to remove a flip flop that fell inside.
Farmers in Wales are warning that they could be fighting to survive if the summer's dry weather continues.
Many say the grass they feed their cows effectively stopped growing weeks ago, prompting concerns about the food available to herds in the longer term.
The weeks of scorching weather follow heavy snow storms in late winter.
NFU Cymru has also warned farmers that they have "a duty of care" to animals, as forecasts predict two more weeks of soaring temperatures.
NFU Cymru President John Davies said he had heard farmers were already using their winter supplies of fodder because the lack of rain had stunted grass growth while the "intense" heat was "burning off crops".
Mr Davies said: "We've heard of farmers who are already using their winter supplies of fodder to feed livestock and with fodder already at a premium this could become a real problem later in the year."
The union has now relaunched its free fodder bank service to help members find animal feed or sell any surplus.
Comment: The present UK heatwave has already caused the earliest harvest in 40 years for farmers, with a significantly reduced yield. The heatwave seems to be extending towards the end of July, with the Met Office predicting that "the last third of July, dry, sunny and warm weather will probably dominate across the bulk of UK, especially in the south."
Hundreds of thousands of people across a wide swathe of western and central Japan were evacuated from their homes on Friday (July 6) as torrential rains pounded the nation, flooding rivers, setting off landslides and leaving at least two people dead.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said the rainfall was"historic" and warned more rain was set to batter already saturated parts of the nation through Sunday.
By Friday morning, one part of the main island of Honshu had been hit with twice the total amount of rain for a normal July.
At least two people were killed, one when he was sucked down a drainage pipe and another an elderly woman toppled by a gust of wind. Several more people were missing, including one whose car was swept away as he delivered milk in the early morning hours, NHK national television said.
A middle school boy was missing after he was swept away by flood waters in a ditch, NHK added.
"The situation is extremely dangerous," wrote a Twitter user in Kochi, a city on the smallest main island of Shikoku, where the rain has been especially intense.
A 16-year-old driver in southwestern Minnesota had to climb out his car's back window Tuesday morning after heavy rains washed out the road and he drove into a sinkhole.
The Renville County Sheriff's Office says the sinkhole was formed after a culvert beneath the township road was washed out.
The driver wasn't hurt, thanks to his seat belt and the car's airbag.
Candace Leopold, the driver's grandmother, says the teen was on his way to work at a farm north of Redwood Falls. After falling into the sinkhole, the teen escaped by climbing out of the car's back window, she said.
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Four people, including a 4-year-old girl, were struck by lightning in two separate Fourth of July gatherings for fireworks on Wednesday, authorities said.
The young girl and an 18-year-old man were first hit by a bolt of lightning as people gathered to watch a fireworks show at Robertson Field in Sheridan, Illinois, about 65 miles southwest of Chicago. Sheridan's fire chief, Kurt Tirevold, told WLS-TV that both victims were critically injured, with the girl receiving a direct hit and the teen suffering a ground shock.
A physician and two off-duty firefighters performed CPR on the girl before emergency responders arrived. They likely saved the girl's life, Tirevold said.
Witnesses told the station that even at several yards away, they felt the lightning strike, which scattered tree bark throughout the field.
A lightning strike on Lake Mahopac sent four boaters to the hospital Wednesday afternoon.
The lightning strike occurred around 3:30 p.m. when a storm suddenly moved over the lake. Two men and two women who were on an approximately 20-foot pleasure boat in the lake did not come to shore as the storm intensified.
The lightning did not directly hit the boat, which did not appear damaged, said Mahopac fire Chief Bill Nikisher. It's more likely that the lightning struck the water near the boat, he said.
"They were out there and they said (the boat) stopped working after they got hit. One of the people said they felt tingling in their legs," said Nikisher.
An earthquake has struck in the south east of England - the third in the area in less than two weeks.
The earth moved in the Crawley area but there are also reports across Surrey and Sussex.
Residents have said buildings and the ground were shaking for "just a few seconds" following a "tremor".
James Hammond, of Bewbush, felt the earth rattle and his flat rumble.
He said: "This was around 11.50am, our flat shook. It wasn't major but you can clearly feel the place shake and everything on the tables were as well."
Comment: USGS have noted six quakes above magnitude 2 since the start of the year, and two of them were above M4. For the most part the UK is considered seismically quiet so this is unusual - and evidenced by the reaction of the people quoted in the article - and one wonders whether the recent revelation of the fault line in London has anything to do with it:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada still trying to identify the species, but say it's not an endangered right whale
A dead whale has washed up on the shores of Petit-Pokemouche Bay on the Acadian Peninsula.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada officials have not identified the species yet, but it is not an endangered North Atlantic right whale, spokesperson Steve Hachey told CBC News.
They believe it "is likely" a minke whale, but decomposition is complicating the identification process, he said. Further analysis is required, he said.
A juvenile humpback whale has been found dead on a beach in northern New South Wales.
The body of the 8.8 metre humpback was discovered early this morning, wallowing in the shallows on Tallow Beach, about two kilometres south of Cape Byron.
Marine animal rescue group ORRCA was alerted shortly before 8am, and National Parks and police arrived on scene.
National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS) ranger Keely Markavino said they were in the process of figuring out the best way to remove the carcass and dispose of it elsewhere.
"The main thing to note is that it won't be disposed of at the beach because that poses its own risk, so it will be disposed of in another safe, designated area," she said.
"The purpose of GLADIO was to attack civilians, the people - women, children, innocent people, unknown people, far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the State and demand greater security. Under a strategy of tension, you 'destabilize in order to stabilize', to create tension within society and promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies."
~ Italian neo-fascist whose prosecution led to the discovery of NATO's 'Gladio' networks across Western Europe
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Comment: The present UK heatwave has already caused the earliest harvest in 40 years for farmers, with a significantly reduced yield. The heatwave seems to be extending towards the end of July, with the Met Office predicting that "the last third of July, dry, sunny and warm weather will probably dominate across the bulk of UK, especially in the south."